Road crash casualties: Characteristics of police injury severity misclassification

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 482-490

  Amoros, Emmanuelle ^a   Martin, Jean Louis ^b   Chiron, Mireille ^b   Laumon, Bernard ^b  

^a University Lyon   (France)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Abbreviated Injury Scale (AIS); Injury severity; Misclassification; Police data; Road trauma registry

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FRANCE; HUMAN; INFANT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INJURY SCALE; INJURY SEVERITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEWBORN; PEDESTRIAN; POLICE; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; FRANCE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLICE; REGISTRIES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 33846968461     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.ta.0000202546.49273.f9     Document Type: Article

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